Trampers missing in Kahurangi National Park

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Police are searching for two trampers who failed to return from Kahurangi National Park when expected.

Twenty-three-year-olds Jessica O'Connor and Dion Reynolds, of Tasman, started their tramp on May 9 but have yet to return home.

Police staff began a search on Tuesday, and will resume again on Wednesday morning.

The pair are understood to have begun their tramp from near the Anatori River car park.

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Police are appealing for help from the public to locate the pair, asking for anyone who has been around the Anatori, Webb, Kokopu, Independent and Fraser rivers since May 8, and who may have seen the pair to get in touch.

Anyone with information should contact police on 105 and quote event number P042228949.